I have been noticing that when an observation is improved by an identifier who takes the community ID from, say, kingdom, or class, all the way to subspecies or variety, the community ID stays at the higher level until a 2nd identifier confirms the ID.
Well, the community ID should stay at that level, but I agree that the “title” of the observation should change as it would if the ID was made at species instead of subspecies. You can see the difference between the two behaviour in my observation here (the title is X. orientale, since there are no open disagreements, but the community ID box says Xanthium, because that’s what the true community ID is): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33597746
yes, thank for you that correction. I was not precise with my language. The title of the observation should change to reflect the leading ID.
My concern is that in searches the observation in this situation will still show up at the higher level, whether it be genus or kingdom. It’s arguably less of a concern at the genus level, but the observation I linked to had been (and still is) stuck at Plantae for 3 years despite having a subspecies level ID.